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• 01 sep 2019

  Budapest

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Violence and film

  The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence is seeking articles dealing with philosophical issues that arise in connection with the depiction of violence in film and television. Violence, real or threatened, drives the plots of many, if not most, of the narratives we watch on the screen. Detectives solve grisly murders, victims seek revenge, teenagers flee slashers, gangsters spray bullets, Kungfu fighters trade punches, and armies clash on the battlefield (or in outer space). While almost everyone claims to wants to reduce the levels of violence in society, movie audiences regularly get an enormous kick out of watching on the screen what we abhor in real life. But not all cinematic violence is meant to titillate. Often the aim is to bring audiences closer to the sickening reality of the mistreatment and abuse suffered by those whose plights might otherwise remain invisible to us. While many worry that exposure to cinematic violence may desensitize us, perhaps it can also serve to awaken our empathy.

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• 14 mai 2009

  15 mai 2009

  16 mai 2009

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  Musique d’État et dictature

  Ce colloque est consacré à l'étude de cas issus de contextes historiques différents, comme l’Allemagne nazie et l’Italie fasciste, l’URSS et les autres pays du Bloc de l’Est, les régimes de Franco en Espagne et de Salazar au Portugal, la France de Vichy ou les dictatures latino-américaines des années soixante-dix, entre autres. Mais aussi, aux questions théoriques que soulèvent ces répertoires, longtemps perçus comme de simples outils de propagande peu dignes d’un intérêt musicologique ou historique.

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